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Dominion Resources may need to spend nearly $1 billion for the decommissioning of its Kewaunee nuclear plant in Wisconsin. The facility will be shut down May 7 and all the buildings on the 900-acre site will be demolished, leaving only the concrete casks containing spent nuclear fuel. "We've got 60 years to turn it back to a 'greenfield' site," said company spokesman Mark Kanz.

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The Carlton, Wis., Town Board accepted Dominion Resources' valuation of its closed Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant at $10 million. "We've looked at what our personal property is, and this is a number the town and Dominion have settled on," said plant spokesman Mark Kanz. The board cannot appeal after it decided to accept the assessment.

Dominion Resources has begun planned job cuts at its Kewaunee nuclear plant in Wisconsin, weeks after the facility was permanently shut down. Job cuts will continue at the end of June and July, said Mark Kanz, a company spokesman. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has modified the plant's status to one in the process of decommissioning from an operating reactor.

The decommissioning of Dominion Resources' Kewaunee nuclear plant in Wisconsin will take time even though the facility has already been shut down, the company said. The site will be available for redevelopment only after the decommissioning is finalized, Dominion said in response to queries from Kewaunee County economic developers. About seven years will also be needed before the nuclear fuel rods at the plant's cooling pool are transferred to dry containers.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors at Dominion Resources' Kewaunee nuclear plant in Wisconsin will oversee the site's shutdown and decommissioning, the agency said. According to Dominion, nearly $1 billion will be allocated over the next six decades for decommissioning activities. "It's not done very frequently," Ken O'Brien, deputy director of the NRC's regional office in Illinois, said of the decommissioning.

Dominion Resources may need to spend nearly $1 billion for the decommissioning of its Kewaunee nuclear plant in Wisconsin. The facility will be shut down May 7. "We've got 60 years to turn it back to a 'greenfield' site," said company spokesman Mark Kanz.